Metallic tie.



E. LOWREY.

METALLIC TIE.

APPLICATION FILED ram/29, 1914.

Patented June 29, 19 15.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1915.

Application filed May 29, 1914. Serial No. 841,857.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELLIS LOWREY, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Bernice, in the parish of Union and Stateof Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in MetallicTies, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to metallic ties for railway rails.

The principal object of the invention is to construct a tie which shallinclude two simi lar members each of which having integral rail engaginglips or members, the said members, before being connected, are arrangedside by side and one moved longitudinally of the other, whereby therails may be arranged upon one of the said sections, after which thesecond mentioned member will be moved to bring its lips into engagementwith the rail, means being provided for centrally securing the saidmembers, whereby the ends or the rail receiving portions of the tie maybe susceptible to a certain amount of movement in a vertical direction,and also whereby the ends of the ties are afforded a suflicientresiliency to properly support the rails without the employment ofcushions or similar devices.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a tie of this classwhereby two rails may have their ends connected without the employmentof securing means other than those inte rally formed with the tie.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view, the improvement resides inthe construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in thefollowing specification and falling within the scope of the appendedclaim,

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view of the tie. Fig. 2 is aperspective view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross section. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of one end of the tie. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section.Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one end of the rail showing one of themembers attached thereto.

In the drawings I have illustrated one form of the device. In thesefigures, the sections 7 and 8 are provided with rail-engaging lips 9 and10 which are formed upon the extension upon the upper plate of thesection. The members or enlargements 11 and 12 upon the ends ofwhich thesaid lips 9 and 10 are formed, extend laterally from the inner side ofthe section upon which they are formed a distance equal to the width ofthe coacting section thus providing the members 11 and 12 withhorizontally straight walls or shoulders 13 and 14 respectively whichoverlap or lie against the upper faces of the companion sections. Theenlarged portions 12 provide a means for limiting the sliding movementof the sectron in an outward direction when the rails are assembled uponthe sections, and retain the said sections in registrable contact. Bothsections are formed with centrally arranged laterally extending openingswhich register when the sections are brought together so as to receive asecuring element 7 adapted to be tightened by a nut 8. The shoulders 13and 14k materially strengthen the rail engaging lips as well asretaining the sections in proper engagement with each other. The lips 9and. 10 are provided adj acent their respective corners withlongitudinally extending lugs 15 and 16 respectively which are adaptedto pass through the bolt openings in the web at the meeting ends of therails B and R thus providing a joint for the rails without theemployment of fish plates or other analogous devices.

From the above description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the simplicity of the device as well as the advantages thereofwill be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which suchinvention appertains without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In combination with a pair of rail ends, each of which has an opening,of a railway tie therefor comprising two similar metallic membersadapted to be arranged side by side, the opposite ends of each of themembers having enlargements upon their bearing faces, the inner wall ofwhich being beveled to provide rail engaging lips, each of saidenlargements having one of its corners formed with a longitudinallyextending lug for entering the opening in one rail end, and each of saidenlargements extending beyond the inner face of the member to overlieand engage with the bearing face of the coacting member, each of thesaid members having second enlargements the outer faces of which beingbeveled to provide rail engaging lips which are disposed adjacent thelips upon the respective ends of the tie,

each of said second enlargements having second member, and a taperingkey centrally one of its corners formed with a longitndiconnecting themembers. 10 nally extending lug which projects beyond In testimonywhereof I aflix my signathe lip, and adapted to enter the opening inture in presence of two witnesses.

the remaining rail end, and the said enlarge-v ELLIS LOWREY. mentsextending beyond the inner face of Witnesses:

the Vme mber upon which it is formed to WILLIAM T. ELLIOTT,

overlie and rest upon the'upper face of the Y. S. FULLER.

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' 'washington, D. C.

